Occult Chemistry eBook

Above the tetrahedron is a balloon-shaped figure,
apparently drawn into shape by the attraction of the
tetrahedron. The body below the tetrahedron looks
like a coil of rope, and contains fifteen atoms; they
are arranged on a slanting disk in a flat ring, and
the force goes in at the top of one atom, and out
of the bottom of it into the top of the next, and so
on, making a closed circuit. The two little spheres,
each containing a triplet, are like fill-up paragraphs
to a compositor—­they seem to be kept standing
and popped in where wanted. The sphere marked
x is a proto-compound, the balloon when set
free.

As was noted under gold (p. 41), sixteen occultum
bodies, re-arranged, make up the connecting rod in
gold:—­

Before proceeding to the study of other chemical atoms,
as to their general internal arrangements, it is desirable
to follow out, in those already shown, the way in
which these atoms break up into simpler forms, yielding
successively what we have called proto-, meta-, and
hyper-compounds. It is naturally easier to follow
these in the simpler atoms than in the more complex,
and if the earlier dissociations are shown, the latter
can be more readily and more intelligibly described.

The first thing that happens on removing a gaseous
atom from its “hole” (see pp. 21 to 23)
or encircling “wall,” is that the contained
bodies are set free, and, evidently released from
tremendous pressure, assume spherical or ovoid forms,
the atoms within each re-arranging themselves, more
or less, within the new “hole” or “wall.”
The figures are, of course, three-dimensional, and
often remind one of crystals; tetrahedral, octagonal,
and other like forms being of constant occurrence.
In the diagrams of the proto-compounds, the constituent
atoms are shown by dots. In the diagrams of the
meta-compounds the dot becomes a heart, in order to
show the resultants of the lines of force. In
the diagrams of the hyper-compounds the same plan
is followed. The letters a, b, c,
&c., enable the student to follow the breaking up
of each group through its successive stages.

HYDROGEN (Plate V, 1).

[Illustration]

The six bodies contained in the gaseous atom instantaneously
re-arrange themselves within two spheres; the two
linear triplets unite with one triangular triplet,
holding to each other relative positions which, if
connected by three right lines, would form a triangle
with a triplet at each angle; the remaining three
triangular triplets similarly arrange themselves in
the second sphere. These form the proto-compounds
of hydrogen.